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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2022-02-12 07:08 am
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No Place Like Home: Outside

NO PLACE LIKE HOME: OUTSIDE

HOME SWEET HOME
You find yourself not on a wide station platform, in the clothes you last remember, holding what you were when you went through the glas door. There's no longer a train behind you, no sound of its whistle, with no other passengers around you in similar style of clothing to your own.

You're somewhere familiar, or just - the last place you remember being before your life became tethered to the Voidtrecker Express. A field, a city, a kingdom, or perhaps even a space station. You should be nowhere, yet you find yourself somewhere, despite all odds.

People - if there are people - don't at first notice you; but attract enough attention to yourself, and that will all change. Friends, family - are they near, a phonecall away? It's either everything you wanted or everything you imagined (for good or worse), and it could seem unbelievably real. But it is real - you're off the train, back somewhere you know.

Finally - the journey is over...


...If only.

You're moving away from where you arrived, for whatever reason. Who wouldn't? You may be far from home, have business elsewhere, or want to go sightseeing. It's time to return to - and live - your life, and that doesn't include sticking to one place.

But you'll find that when you reach a point, the world becomes...foggy. A fog that you hadn't seen in the distance before it appears, and when you walk through it, you'll find yourself in a place some have already found themselves in.

Because for some passengers, there was nowhere for them to return, and so the barriers lead only to fog, and then straight back onto the platform. The Voidtrecker Express may be stationed, or there may be a blanket of fog where it should be; sometimes, it can be caught trying to leave the station, only to come back a few minutes later. The doors are shut tight, and the windows are obscured, showing nothing inside.

Those who came from somewhere can go back, should they go through the turnstiles again. And if they want, they can take people along with them, too...


But sometimes, they go to a world no one knows. They go through the barriers into nothing, a black emptiness. Not space, for those that know space, and it doesn't seem to be the void either. But it is a void, devoid of anything at all. Just a darkness so complete they will not be able to see anything at all, they will only know their companion is there through touch and sound. How they are breathing, how they are living at all, is a mystery; one probably answered only by the SCA on their wrist.

Being there brings an unease deep down inside them. This place is not natural, not somewhere that they should exist in. Not a place that should exist at all. Luckily they are never there for more than a few moments before they return once more to the station, fog covering them like a safety blanket.




A DIFFERENT CORNER: LOCATIONS

In the first couple of days (whatever that means, when time doesn't match up between most places), the only way to move to another's tethered location is by them leading another there. But after that, individuals will show up in other locations when they reach close to the distance limit. Indeed as time goes on everything gets a lot less stable. They may know their five miles perfectly but still one step to another leads them back to the platform. Attempting to return to their world leads them somewhere else entirely.

And there's quite a few places to end up.

SETTLEMENTS
COMMUNITIES
CITIES & KINGDOMS


OOC NOTES
OOC post. Ask questions here.

LOCATION TOPLEVELS: Since it'll be easier for players to engage with settings presented by those offering them, when we see a toplevel for one of the above locations put up, we'll add it to the list! We've also included the OOC comments for settings to the side, so any questions can be left with the player, as well as extra details. Please always speak with the player first if you intend to do anything drastic to the setting!

A REMINDER: Time of log is Poi 22-25, but time within worlds can last up to a maximum of two weeks. Minimum is whatever you want it to be.

During Poi 22 and 23, characters will need to be led to a location to be able to access it. From Poi 24, people will show up in locations regardless of invitation.

The second half of the event will go up during 20th to 25th February (Poi 26-28). But as always, play around in here and do as you like!

If your character's setting isn't above, link us to it in the Questions post, along with your toplevel! We'll add it.
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jingyeets: (chat | come back)

[personal profile] jingyeets 2022-02-13 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
He jogs over, pressing his hands together in a formalish bow once he reaches her.

"Miss, would you consent to taking a few photographs of my home? Home mountain, not a house or courtyard."

His tail behind him has perked up into the sort of sweeping, feline-esque curiosity of a person waiting on an answer, or the move of some object of interest. As it is, he expects the resolution to the current disaster will be all of them back on the Voidtrecker Express.

After all, each of them's still tethered to the damn thing, and a number of them (himself included) hadn't even opted to leave.
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[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2022-02-13 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
Eva perks up at the idea of going to his world, even if it's just to take photos. "Sure, I don't mind. My name's Eva, by the way."

She does glance at the tail then grins, this time a little uncertain. "Though my lack of tail won't be an issue, will it?"
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[personal profile] jingyeets 2022-02-13 08:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Right, Miss Eva! I'm Lan Jingyi." Her name's familiar, in the same sense that most people on train for a certain amount of time sound familiar in passing, her face likewise recognised. He hasn't spent quality time with all other passengers, doesn't think anyone truly does, but to be unaware of them he'd have to live more like Idia does.

(And he doesn't, who wants to be locked into their cabin that much?)

The comment on tails has his twitching as he glances back at it, then shakes his head, snorting after.

"No, and they know the current situation we're in. Most people aren't dragon souled on my world anyway, and only a handful of the Voidtreckers are even cultivators. It won't be strange. It'd be stranger if you did," he says, lifting his shoulders in a sort of helplessly honest shrug.

"We can eat while we're there too, or look around if you want, though we're confined to the mountain, and I'd ask we not purposefully mess with anyone. It's, ugh. It's complicated when my spirit's kept from returning properly to my body. We're not easy with that kind of interference, but it won't be held against us, either. You're still willing?"
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[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2022-02-20 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Messing with another world would revoke my Guest Right -the right to hospitality-, much like messing with someone's house would," Eva says solemnly. "Plus it's just rude."

More than rude in her mind, but she doesn't know much if anything about his culture so she leaves it there.

"Right." She's sort of bemused, but also damn if she doesn't wish Satoru were here. "Then let's get going. Roro's got heaps of storage space, so I can take as many photos as you want of anything, really."
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[personal profile] jingyeets 2022-02-24 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
It'd be equally rude in his, so he nods to her statement, then grins. Because this truly is the one thing he wants, has wanted since talking to Ten-Nank. Images of home, like paintings he can hold, so lifelike the times he's seeped in nostalgia can at least have some of it assuaged.

"Right! This way, walk off platform with me and we can go... to Gusu!" He's in motion as he speaks, heading right off platform and belatedly thrusting up his tail if she needs a handhold. Because few seem to resist a tufted, fluffy tail up in the air at around hand-height, as he's learned through experience on train.

"Roro is what your device is called?" Through the momentary fog, what they walk out into is... a mountainside, filled with narrow, tall enough trees, and a plentitude of ground coverage underneath. If Eva looks carefully, white fluffy tails, heads, or bodies can be seen moving around: rabbits foraging peacefully in this protected sanctum of Gusu Lan.
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